The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-25
MEN WHO COURT NoToRIETY.
Great Anxiety to Get Their Names in
the Newspapers.

creat Anxiety to Get Their Names in
the Newspapers.
NEW YORK, April 23.-Thcre are thou
,,ds IF men in New York who fairly live
and wax fat upon newspaper notoriety.
Tl,oi,. sole ambition seems to be to have their
lama in print. know one prominent and
wealthy citizen of this place who actually
snands as much money i'll achieving this OBJ
;ppct as he does for all his other expenses. Of
g,rSe aside from it's being gratifying to at
toin notorietv. he hopes that it Will also give
In, nopularitv There are many Congress
Iin,, and even United States Senators who
nro seldom heard of in Washington, who, by
,,ol,in(r n "trip to New York, manage to get
+beir names into the papers, and New York,
heinp the great centre of news, 1t manages to
ind its way into print in newspapers all over
the country. Some of these people, know
;,(, that their views are of no value, and
tb9t no one would care to print them, much
iaSS read them, are willing to be subjected
20 ridicnle in order that a story may be
r,ritten about them. | know of one eX-
senator belonging to the Pacific coast whose
,.ivate secretary wrote story that | con
FTdnred TOO uncomplnnentary to PRINT when
If was offered to me, and afterwards dis
4 covered that the Senator was cognlzant of
tbo fact For several years it has been my
monument people who come to New York,
and Il, is surprising to see how many want
~ class themselves i'll that category. | have
\ nften thought that it would pay some enter
arising journalist to start a paper devoted
f. stories of this class of people for which
believe they would gladly pay
a dollar IA line. One enterprising
individual, who has made living
n in Wall street, and who probably has
never seen the inside of a newspaper Office,
has made himself quite popular with news
Il naper men by furnishing them with in
n formation about visitors TO New York. He
n has given me several things, and felt under
\ considerable obligation to him, but the
4 Dther dav found that for every line of this
4 matter that was printed he managed to get
Il advertising rates. I was speaking to Col
n Thomas P. Ochiltree, who is certainly one
n of the best advertised men in
last last night and I asked him what
4 value he placed on gratuitOus advertising.
Il He frankly admitted that when he told
n rood story he enjoyed seeing it in print, but
& said that if he had his life to live over
again he would avoid newspaper
n notoriety At first he did not seek
N IT, but having been a newspaper man inl
n early life himself, it was natural on enter
B ing public life, where he was put in the wa
a Of obtaining bleinformation, he should
Al be glad to give it to his old brothers of ne
A press, and they, feeling under obligations to
81 him. never failed to use his name Wien
VI ever they possibly could 'In this vay,"
q said the Colonel, II soon became conpicu-
81 Gus figure to newspaper readers until was
q probably the best advertised man IN the
81 country The things that appeared about
NJ me were usually written by Journalists who
were well acquainted with me, bu once in
~ a while they would Overstep the mark and
81 put ridiculous things in my mouth
N words that | had never uttered
III Knowing that they meant all right,
# made it a point, and l still make
X it point, never to deny what is credited to
me in newspapers Now it has got so far
that the average editor seems to think that
~ anything that is written about me will be
" read, and reporters, knowing this, write
about me when they can't write of anything
else If they have an interesting but
ridiculous story and see no excuse to publish
it, they simply put it in my mouth so that |
am made a fictitious character Only one
prominent journalist has said harsh things
about me, and he is Charles A. Dana l
often wondered why he did SO. |
always bad the greatest admiration for
him. lt'was only recently that | found
put the reason | met him at a dinner par
ty and was introduced to him. As he took
my hand he seemed to be greatly astonished,
and he looked at me in a very quiZZical
manner Finally he said: Can this be the
real genuine Col Tom Ochiltree, of Tex
asF | said that it certainly was. Why
he said, Col Ochiltree | am delighted to
meet you, but expected to meet different
man. had read so much about you in the
newspapers that had formed my own idea;
thought you were an ideal looking cow
Doy.' This is but one case that | meet with
every day. The majority of people who
dont know me think that there is actually
hair on my teeth
Ex-Congressman Wise, of Virginia, is
another genial gentleman who receives a
great deal of newspaper advertising, and he
was present at this conversation. He said
tnat his experience was very similar to that
Oh Col Ochlltree 1.-The average person."
Sald Mr.. Wise, considers me most blood
h thirsty man, and seems to think that | am
n never happy except when | am wallowing in
gore was walking up and down the cor
q rloor OF the hotel the other day when l
heard a party OF gentlemen talking about
ne ana saying what terrible fellow was,
anu llnaly was pointed out to them, and
they expressed the greatest surprise upon
seeing what a mild-mannered, good-natured
person was
!" Ith the exception of theatrical people,
Llon unlnk TOO much advertising is a good
yIhg, II a man does some meritorious act
auilhK 1t certainly aids him in having it
22ken OF In the newspapers, otherwise it is
IJuflouS to him. Senator Hearst, of Cali
orllla, who has been here for some time
Aesls smart San Francisco journalist EN-
soyeu IN clipping stories about the Senator
% S,"D appear IN the newspapers, and he has
@eih read to him each day. He is yet new
%@~ySpaper character, and he enjoys the
aGJoriiy OF these stories, but not so much
She did at first. HARRY WALKER.